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U.S.  DEPOSITORY 


(B.A.I.  Order  252.) 

U.  S.- DEPARTMENT  OF  AGRICULTURE, 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


SPECIAL  ORDER  PROVIDING  FOR  SHIPMENT  OF  CATTLE  OF  THE 
NONQUARANTINED  AREA  FOR  EXHIBITION  AT  CERTAIN  FAIRS 
HELD  IN  THE  QUARANTINED  AREA. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Bureau  of  Animal  Industry, 
Washington,  D.  € .,  August  IS,  1917. 
It  is  ordered  that,  in  compliance  with  B.  A.  I.  Order  245,  regu- 
lation 2,  section  8,  cattle  that  are  to  be  exhibited  at  the  following 
fairs  may  be  moved  interstate  from  points  outside  of  the  quaran- 
tined area  to  said  fairs  or  exhibitions  as  noninfectious  cattle  with- 
out dipping  and  reshipped  therefrom  to  points  outside  the  quaran- 
tined area,  provided  the  restrictions  set  forth  below  are  fully  com- 
plied with: 

Central  West  Texas  Fair  Association,  at  Abilene,  Texas,  October  S-13,  1917. 

The  State  Fair  of  Texas,  at  Dallas,  Texas,  October  13-18,  1917. 

Chattahoochee  Valley  Fair,  at  Columbus,  Georgia,  October  22-27,  1917. 

The  Gulf  Coast  Fair,  at  Mobile,  Alabama,  October  22-28,  1917. 

Southeast  Alabama  Fair  Association,  at  Dothan,  Alabama,  October  29-No- 
vember  3,  1917. 

Louisiana  State  Fair,  at  Shreveport,  Louisiana,  October  31-November  5,  1917. 

Georgia  State  Fair,  at  Macon,  Georgia,  October  31-November  9,  1917. 

Texas  Cotton  Palace,  at  Waco,  Texas,  November  3-18,  1917. 

National  Farm  and  Live  Stock  Show,  at  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  November 
1GJ-19,  1917. 

National  Feeders  and  Breeders'  Show,  at  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  March  11-16, 
1918 

(a )  Such  cattle  shall  be  shipped  by  rail  to  points  of  exhibition  and  shall  not 
be  unloaded  in  the  quarantined  area  elsewhere  than  at  such  points. 

(6)  Separate  clean  and  disinfected  chutes  and  other  facilities  shall  be  pro- 
vided for  the  exclusive  unloading  and  loading  of  such  cattle  at  the  points  of 
exhibition. 

(c)  Such  cattle  shall  be  hauled  in  clean  and  disinfected  wagons  direct  from 
the  cars  in  which  they  arrive  at  points  of  exhibition  to  the  fairgrounds  and 
from  the  fairgrounds  direct  to  the  cars  in  which  they  are  reshipped. 

(d)  All  cattle  shall  be  excluded  from  the  fairgrounds  during  the  intervals 
between  fairs,  and  the  entire  fairgrounds  must  be  maintained  free  from  cattle- 
tick  infestation. 

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(e)  In  order  that  the  hay,  straw,  and  similar  materials  used  for  feed  and 
bedding  by  such  cattle  during  the  time  they  are  within  the  quarantined  area 
shall  be  noninfectious,  all  such  materials  shall  originate  outside  the  quaran- 
tined area  and  be  shipped  therefrom  in  cleaned  and  disinfected  cars  and  so 
handled  at  points  of  exhibition  that  they  shall  not  become  infectious. 

(/)  Such  cattle  shall  not  be  returned  from  points  of  exhibition  to  points 
outside  of  the  quarantined  area  except  in  cleaned  and  disinfected  cars,  nor 
unless  accompanied  by  a  certificate  issued  by  an  inspector  of  the  Bureau  of 
Animal  Industry  showing  that  such  cattle  have  had  no  opportunity  to  become 
infected  with  the  cattle  tick   (Margaropus  annulatus). 

J.    R.    MOHLER, 

Acting  Chief  of  Bureau. 


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